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Madison Wisconsin: A Tale of Two Mustaches                                 By Jeff Jefferson 3-15-11


In this new era of civility, one could become cross-eyed if he or she attempted to count the many Hitler mustaches on display at the recent protests in Madison and elsewhere. Hitler is like the last child picked to play basketball: everyone wants him to be on the other side’s team; meanwhile, amidst all of the Nazi-hot-potato, communists and socialists have come out of the shadows to openly work on a transformation of the American system. What is shocking about this development is that supposedly mainstream organizations, such as the teachers union, are perfectly comfortable with a communist alliance. How communism has managed to dodge condemnation within the public’s perception is a curious phenomenon. While Hitler has become the one-size-fits-all bogeyman of political discourse, ruthless Marx-based villainy gets a mere dishonorable mention in the gallery of human destruction. The protesters in Madison and elsewhere need to be reminded that, despite its new, friendlier face, communism is the harbinger of misery and death.

One of the main tenants of Marxist thought is the dissolution of property ownership. Once property is held in common, not only do possessions become subject to the whim of the state but so also are the lives of citizens. As of 2007, a median estimation of civilians murdered under Communist regimes since the Russian Revolution stands at 149,469,610. This number does not include external or internal wars; it is merely an approximation of the people killed by their own government through genocide, starvation, forced labor, and political purges.

Here is a top ten with death totals broken down by country:

1. People’s Republic of China: 73,237,00

2. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: 58,627,000

3. Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic: 3,284,000

4. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: 3,163,000

5. Cambodia: 2,627,000

6. Vietnam: 1,670,000

7. People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: 1,343,610

8. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: 1,072,000

9. Chinese Soviet Republic: 700,000

10. The total of the remaining thirteen Communist countries: 1,996,000.

These statistics are provided courtesy of Scott Manning. Visit his websites ScottManning.com and DigitalSurvivors.com for a more thorough explanation of these numbers. Manning also provides statistics concerning civilians killed by the Nazi regime. Although some of the variables differ, the total comes to 20,946,000 civilians murdered. This is significant because, while it is not an absolutely equal assessment, a comparison of these figures to the numbers above shows that communist regimes are every bit as murderous as the Nazi regime; however, the modern left seems to find the communist body counts irrelevant. To them communism is just another ideology.

For instance, when Barack Obama was running for president, his close association with the radical communist Bill Ayers was well known, yet the mainstream media, the Democrat Party, and many voters were unconcerned. In fact, just before the 2008 election a large group of Wisconsin educators signed a statement condemning the “demonization of Professor William Ayers.” The revolutionary goals of Ayers and his defunct terrorist organization, the Weather Underground, are no secret, and it has been shown that they embraced methods of societal transformation that parallel their communist forefathers.

Larry Grathwohl, an F.B.I. informant that infiltrated the Weather Underground (W.U.), claims that the group discussed establishing re-education centers once the revolution was accomplished. When Grathwohl asked about recalcitrant capitalists, he was told that those who could not be re-educated would be eliminated. According to Grathwohl, the W.U. estimated the number that would be eliminated at 25 million. A quick glance at Stalin-era collectivization reveals where this idea originated.

Under collectivization, Stalin declared that wealthier peasants, the kulaks, must be eliminated as a class. Some were sent to Siberian labor camps for re-education, but most starved to death amidst government accusations of hiding food.

There are also people within President Obama’s administration that have resigned due to their communist sympathies. White House Communication Director, Anita Dunn, was forced to resign after claiming that Chairman Mao was one of her favorite political philosophers, and Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Van Jones, resigned after his affiliation with revolutionary Marxist groups caused an outrage.

Although Jones had always been open about his revolutionary goals, many chose to ignore his dangerous ideas. In an discussion on Rustbelt Radio in April of 2008, ten months before he became President Obama’s advisor, Jones clearly stated the ultimate goals of the green economy:

“One of the things that has happened I think too often to progressives is that we don’t understand the relationship between minimum goals and maximum goals. Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said, ‘OK now we want reparations for slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages.’ If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum program. ‘We just want to integrate these buses.’ The students came out with a very minimum program, ‘We just want to sit at the lunch counter.’ But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country. And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now were saying we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether. But, that’s a process, and I think what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the crisis is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary. So the green economy will start off as a small subset, and we will, we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.”

Once again, this form of central planning is not a new idea. The communists in the Soviet Union and China have tried these economic/social experiments: both trials were disastrous. Like Stalin’s collectivization, Mao worked to transform China’s economy with the Great Leap Forward, and like collectivization, it resulted in starvation. In fact, the Great Leap Forward led to the largest famine in human history. Also, both Stalin and Mao’s programs provided a convenient excuse to implement class extinction (genocide,) and forced labor.

As one can see, whether in the past or modern times, communist revolution seems to follow a similar line of thought. Similar logic leads to comparable results. Contemporary communists have spent much energy crafting a benign public image, and now, a new crop of historically ignorant dupes are lining up for the swindle. While the political dictionary of the U.S. has devolved into a Hitler-mustache-equals-bad-think scenario, the real threat to our society is allowed to maneuver without scrutiny. For instance, in Wisconsin, there are many Marxist groups that have joined the Madison protests to show their solidarity.

Here is a top five:

1. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation

2. The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

3. The Party for Socialism and Liberation

4. The Industrial Workers of the World

5. Student for a Democratic Society

The hypocritical nature of what is happening in Wisconsin should be apparent to all. There are groups converging upon Madison that allege to stand for equality and justice, yet they are protesting for the right of certain members of society to receive privileges that others are denied. Instead of fighting the power, they are fighting for the powerful to maintain control. Has left-wing indoctrination so infiltrated academia that the teachers protesting in Madison no longer see the difference between themselves and communists?

Americans have become so complacent in their prosperity that they believe the evil of the last century no longer exists. Somehow we are supposed to believe that this time around, a Marxist revolution will be benevolent, and there will be equality and peace for all. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those that are peddling Marxist ideas are either complicit in the charade or not as intellectually enlightened as they would have everyone believe. Instead of arguing which side of the Madison debate Hitler would be on, we should be drawing attention to the fact that the unions are in league with the evil communists. It is a shame that Joseph Stalin did not have a more memorable mustache; maybe then, people would realize what kind of malevolence our society is facing.